A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions

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A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions

by Sir William Petty

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A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2020-03-09

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Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Sir William Petty

Sir William Petty

1623–1687

A restless 17th-century thinker who moved easily between science, medicine, politics, and economics, he is often remembered as one of the early minds behind political arithmetic. His life linked the Royal Society, Cromwellian Ireland, and some of the first attempts to measure society with numbers.

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